Comments on: Zombies and the Gospel

By: Internet Encouragement 01/10/2011 | Pasce Verbo

Internet Encouragement 01/10/2011 | Pasce Verbo — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:04:06 +0000

[...] Zombies and the Gospel – Dr. Moore takes a look at some of the symbolism that hits home between zombies and The Gospel. I’ve always believed stories that deal with common themes in horror movies have a much greater ability to showcase Gospel symbolism than your run-of-the-mill family movie. [...]

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By: Flotsam and jetsam (12/8) « scientia et sapientia

Flotsam and jetsam (12/8) « scientia et sapientia — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:33:46 +0000

[...] Russell More reflects on Zombies and the Gospel. [...]

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:45:21 +0000

That’s a very thoughtful insight into people’s attraction with zombies. Personally, I just kinda like the movies because they always demonstrate a worst case scenario (even if it’s extremely unlikely), and they’re entertaining.

By: Ryan K. Walling

Ryan K. Walling — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:07:52 +0000

I have looked for reasons for the recent popularity explosion of vampires. I wonder if it has the same root as you described here. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on that and how we as Christians should deal with its outbreak.

By: Christiane

Christiane — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:52:41 +0000

Is there a connection between the ‘zombie’ concept and the ancient Jewish legends of the ‘Golem of Prague’ ?

Or a strange resemblance perhaps ?

By: Bill Ross

Bill Ross — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:20:20 +0000

My favorite zombie story is Matthew’s:

Mat 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Mat 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

By: David Alan Hjelle

David Alan Hjelle — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:48:50 +0000

I suspect there is another reason, though I’ve not quite figured out how to trace all the way from it to zombies. It is definitely connected to death, however.

It seems to me (with no hard data whatsoever) that people fear and abhor death significantly more than they did even a century ago. Read any Western novel, and you will find men and women willing to risk death for their values (and, sometimes, for their vices). Those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for something they believed were held as heros.

Now, however, it seems that very few people—except perhaps some orthodox Christians and, strangely, terrorists—are able to find causes worth dying for. And both are viewed as fools.

(I’d end my comment there, but I should be clear: the only comparison I make between an orthodox Christian and a terrorist is willingness to die for a cause. A terrorist’s willingness to take other’s lives at the same time is despicable and clearly against Christ’s commands in Scripture.)

By: Greg M. Johnson

Greg M. Johnson — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:56:34 +0000

Heard a pastor give a sermon where he mentioned a few cases of horrible suffering due to man’s inhumanity to man, like slavery, and said God’s wrath is like that, the damned would suffer even worse. True enough. But after listening to a season of the pastors’ sermons, he brings up man’s inhumanity to man only as a tool to describe God’s wrath, not as something that Jesus died for, not as something that in unrepentant sins of omission and sins of commission sends people to hell, not as an issue for earnest conversion of the brutally-minded or exploitation-defending.

No, the pastor seemed oblivious to all that, telling people to join in some kind of team that goes out and makes converts, almost like zombies. Secular movie-makers and authors must make the same observation. Some of us Christians make the same observation.